Did you waste your money buying a house to get access to MCPS?

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Anonymous wrote:Read the comments in the article about it:
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2018/MCPS-Launches-Effort-To-Find-New-Curriculum-After-Report-Finds-Flaws-in-Existing-Materials/

So MCPS developed their own materials in conjunction with Pearson, and now pays Pearson almost $1mln/year to use the shoddy curriculum they developed? Infuriating.

Also read how the previous superintendent got an all-expenses-paid trip for him and his wife to Australia, paid for by Pearson. Hmm...

The thing that gets me as I read those comments is that parents with advanced degrees can't figure out their children's homework. If they can't figure it out, how do you expect a child from a less advantaged background to figure it out? If their parents are not native English speakers and have only a high school education, how are they going to help their kids. MCPS is failing the children.

Yes, I read it. It was a lot of bad decisions by MCPS and the person who managed this process shouldn't be managing the new curriculum decision. But it's going to change going forward, so posting that MCPS is never going to improve is probably misguided.

So where in the central office do you work?

I don’t work anywhere in education. Just a parent who doesn’t undestand why you’re wasting your breath harping about a bad decision that MCPS has already decided to fix.

1. Their decision to fix it doesn’t help all the kids who had to endure 2.0.

2. Their decision to keep a curriculum teachers and parents widely said was failing doesn’t give us a lot of faith that they’ll get it right this time.

Then move
Poof
Your problem is solved
And you can go in large the new complaint about the new place in the new school system that you're in because evidently that is your goal to complain not find solutions just freaking complain

It’s clear to me now that nothing will ever be good enough for some of these posters kids. They will complain wherever they go. Why not just homeschool? That way you’re 100% in barge and we don’t have to hear your incessant complaints.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Read the comments in the article about it:
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2018/MCPS-Launches-Effort-To-Find-New-Curriculum-After-Report-Finds-Flaws-in-Existing-Materials/

So MCPS developed their own materials in conjunction with Pearson, and now pays Pearson almost $1mln/year to use the shoddy curriculum they developed? Infuriating.

Also read how the previous superintendent got an all-expenses-paid trip for him and his wife to Australia, paid for by Pearson. Hmm...

The thing that gets me as I read those comments is that parents with advanced degrees can't figure out their children's homework. If they can't figure it out, how do you expect a child from a less advantaged background to figure it out? If their parents are not native English speakers and have only a high school education, how are they going to help their kids. MCPS is failing the children.

Yes, I read it. It was a lot of bad decisions by MCPS and the person who managed this process shouldn't be managing the new curriculum decision. But it's going to change going forward, so posting that MCPS is never going to improve is probably misguided.

So where in the central office do you work?

I don’t work anywhere in education. Just a parent who doesn’t undestand why you’re wasting your breath harping about a bad decision that MCPS has already decided to fix.

1. Their decision to fix it doesn’t help all the kids who had to endure 2.0.

2. Their decision to keep a curriculum teachers and parents widely said was failing doesn’t give us a lot of faith that they’ll get it right this time.

Then move
Poof
Your problem is solved
And you can go in large the new complaint about the new place in the new school system that you're in because evidently that is your goal to complain not find solutions just freaking complain

It’s clear to me now that nothing will ever be good enough for some of these posters kids. They will complain wherever they go. Why not just homeschool? That way you’re 100% in barge and we don’t have to hear your incessant complaints.

Then they'd only have themselves to blame and we all know that would be unacceptable to hold themselves accountable.

[Anonymous]

It is the people who complain that hold the school accountable. If it is all up to those who are always self satisfied, we will never see any improvement.

[Anonymous]

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I INVESTED money in land near downtown Bethesda, which has appreciated and will continue to do so. The schools are good as well!

for how much longer?

I've been in the system for over 20 years as a teacher. born in Mo Co - spent my entire lifetime in this county

Don't depend on Bethesda "holding out" for much longer.

Long enough. My oldest who needs lots of help, has indeed received lots of help from MCPS, for which we are incredibly grateful, and will be out in a few years. My youngest can deal with whatever they throw at her

My son received services early on, but through Infants and Toddlers. So 2.0 wasn't a factor. However, as a rising 4th grader, he was part of the 2.0 roll out. You really don't know the effects until you move into another system, which is happening shortly for us.

So while you say your youngest can deal, I think that's a very sad statement to make about educating your child.

Learning isn't about "dealing." It's about being challenged to master material that will help a person to function in society.

We moved from having total autonomy over guides and instructional practices to having no control over what to present to a classroom of children each learning at a different pace.

Someone mentioned that "ignorance is bliss" with regard to parental awareness. I should be amazed at this lack of awareness, but I'm not, as I do realize that many parents barely touch the surface when conversing with their own children. Superficial discussions at best . . .

how sad

Well, "dealing" is important to helping a person function in society too. Probably more important than algebra!

Yes, because the end times are upon us?!?

We're just getting back from a string of college visits. I'm struck by how popular math is as a major at SLAC colleges these days. I'm even more struck by how much more articulate (and personable) our math major tour guides were than the ones who start out by pointing out the possibility of never taking a math class. The math majors could answer every question succinctly, and had a full command of the logic of course requirements, dining plans, dorm options, you name it. The math squeamish couldn't even articulate the social life--it's great here, I'm like never bored.

But, yeah, you do you, hope learning to "deal" with chaos is enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read the comments in the article about it:
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2018/MCPS-Launches-Effort-To-Find-New-Curriculum-After-Report-Finds-Flaws-in-Existing-Materials/

So MCPS developed their own materials in conjunction with Pearson, and now pays Pearson almost $1mln/year to use the shoddy curriculum they developed? Infuriating.

Also read how the previous superintendent got an all-expenses-paid trip for him and his wife to Australia, paid for by Pearson. Hmm...

The thing that gets me as I read those comments is that parents with advanced degrees can't figure out their children's homework. If they can't figure it out, how do you expect a child from a less advantaged background to figure it out? If their parents are not native English speakers and have only a high school education, how are they going to help their kids. MCPS is failing the children.

Yes, I read it. It was a lot of bad decisions by MCPS and the person who managed this process shouldn't be managing the new curriculum decision. But it's going to change going forward, so posting that MCPS is never going to improve is probably misguided.

So where in the central office do you work?

I don’t work anywhere in education. Just a parent who doesn’t undestand why you’re wasting your breath harping about a bad decision that MCPS has already decided to fix.

You realize that during this "fixing phase" more kids will be guinea pigs, yes?

not sure how many purchased programs will be piloted - But maybe some kids will hit the jackpot by being at THE school where the "chosen" materials were used.

I am cncerned about this. If parents get involved and ask for a tried and true curriculum, like Math in Focus, they won't play games. I don't want games. Just the BASIC curriculum. I don't care if it is boring, just do the d-m BASICS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is the people who complain that hold the school accountable. If it is all up to those who are always self satisfied, we will never see any improvement.

Oh yea, complaining on DCUM is the only thing that will improve the school system.
Insert giant eye roll !!

[Anonymous]

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Or, just maybe, you could shut up. People are right to be upset that the curriculum failed their kids.

I have to assume that 1) you're an MCPS hack, 2) you're a private school parent, 3) you're from another school system, or 4) you don't give a crap about your kid's education.

Those are silly assumptions. Why would you make them? I don't work for MCPS, I have two kids in MCPS, and my kids' education in MCPS has been fine so far. Perfect? No, but I don't expect perfection.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your child?

+100000

Not perfect but so much better than what I had growing up.

[Anonymous]

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Or, just maybe, you could shut up. People are right to be upset that the curriculum failed their kids.

I have to assume that 1) you're an MCPS hack, 2) you're a private school parent, 3) you're from another school system, or 4) you don't give a crap about your kid's education.

Those are silly assumptions. Why would you make them? I don't work for MCPS, I have two kids in MCPS, and my kids' education in MCPS has been fine so far. Perfect? No, but I don't expect perfection.

How, specifically, has the curriculum failed your child?

+100000

Not perfect but so much better than what I had growing up.

Where did you go to school?

Growing up, we had a solid, well-defined curriculum with textbooks and corresponding workbooks. I think that would be a HUGE improvement. Just having the material organized well would be a step up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is the people who complain that hold the school accountable. If it is all up to those who are always self satisfied, we will never see any improvement.

Complaining holds the school accountable only if you recommend ways to fix things. OP just wants to create 10 different threads to complain.

[Anonymous]

We are in a middling, non-W school so I am probably somewhat less outraged. I’ve always thought that public school won’t provide much of what’s needed to educate children, so we use tutoring and supplementation to bring our kids the rest of the way. In light of the fact that I didn’t pay a premium on my house to live in a W cluster, I don’t think I wasted my money. I bought in MoCo because I work in MoCo. I didn’t know the schools were supposed to be top notch; I’m not from here. Since I have low expectations, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the quality of teaching. My kid goes to a great school and although we do more outside of school than is normal, overall, MCPS has exceeded my expectations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we get some textbooks?

Move on
I know schools in lots of places don't have textbooks
Kids in Fairfax don't have Them
It is 2018, not 1980

DP. If you don't want physical textbooks, fine. Do you really think that over the last 30 years it has become unnecessary to refer to an edited text of some sort? Euclid codified this in 300 B.C. but my DC is supposed to learn geometry by fill-in-the-blank, because 2018?!? Just opening to a random page in this packet, I see whoever wrote it thinks compass needs to always be plural like scissors:

1. Place the compasses on one end of the line segment.
2. Set the compasses' width to an approximately two thirds the line length.

Were there errors like this when you learned geometry?

[Anonymous]

No my house has doubled in value since we bought it,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is the people who complain that hold the school accountable. If it is all up to those who are always self satisfied, we will never see any improvement.

Oh yea, complaining on DCUM is the only thing that will improve the school system.
Insert giant eye roll !!

This forum is monitored by the system, as is the Parents' Coalition.

People are paid (in part) to scan forums.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I moved to MOCO to be near the best publics, the best privates, the best country clubs, the most billionaires and the prettiest landscape while being embedded in the DC culture and not across a river from it.

Being near a few rich people isn’t going to make MCPS any better. The only thing you’re embedded in is your own fantasy that you made a good decision.

so true!

The system cannot continue to be defined by the W schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is the people who complain that hold the school accountable. If it is all up to those who are always self satisfied, we will never see any improvement.

Oh yea, complaining on DCUM is the only thing that will improve the school system.
Insert giant eye roll !!

This forum is monitored by the system, as is the Parents' Coalition.

People are paid (in part) to scan forums.

ARE YOU FOR FREAKING REAL?